Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...features as a nose, looked like a death's head. Driver Barney Oldfield had left school to be waiter in an insane asylum, left the asylum to be a bicycle racer, left his bicycle to work in the Ford auto factory. Last week Barney Oldfield, now 53, was at Daytona Beach, Fla., as was Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird, a $115,000 twelve-cylinder, 1,400-h.p. Napier-motored racing car in which he hoped to beat the world's record he made last year?245.733 m.p.h...
...these began business with $1,250,000 deposited, a good half million more than any other bank in the State has ever received on its first day. Other du Pont banks (all controlled by his Almours Corp.) are in Jacksonville, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Bartow, Lakeland. Applications are pending for Daytona, De Land and Tampa...
...Arthur Hoffman '34, of White Plains, New York; Asa Emory Phillips Jr. '34, of Washington, D.C.; Thomas Edward Naughten '34, of Washington, D.C.; George Gore, of Rapid City, South Dakota; John Joseph O'Donnell '34, of Milton; Seymour Marcus Peyser '34, of New York City; and Benjamin Ginsberg, of Daytona Beach, Florida. Two upper-classmen were elected to membership: Jerrold Harold Ruskin '33, of New Rochelle, New York and George Edward Lodgen '32, of Malden. These men were on the Harvard debating team that met Princeton in the triangular debate last week...
Capt. Malcolm Campbell, British racing driver, ordered his mechanics to give the fishtailed, monster-snouted Bluebird a shove. Slipping into first gear he pointed her up Daytona Beach toward the judges' stand. A white mist hung over the course and the sand was wet. When he was going 80 m.p.h. he shifted the Napier motor to second speed. At 125 m.p.h. he changed to high. The motor settled into a rising drone like the hum of an enormous bee. At the end of the ten-mile course, without stopping for the usual tire change and mechanical adjustment, he turned...
Capt. Campbell, quiet, reticent, with regular teeth and a narrow, Mephistophelian face, has spent $100,000 on alterations in Bluebird. It has the same long chassis he drove at Daytona three years ago (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928) but its new 12-cylinder Napier aeroplane engine has been equipped with superchargers that up its horsepower from 920 to 1,450. The Golden Arrow had only 900 h. p. Blue bird's chassis clears the ground by five inches and the wind resistance has been reduced by changes in streamlining. Fins like a plane's elevators will hold down...